Strategy Shepherds Influence School

The most practical influence education for serious African professionals.

Learn the Influence Infrastructure Method through live masterclasses designed for professionals with 8+ years of experience who want their expertise to travel further.

Join Annual — $500/year Drop In for $25
3
Layers of Influence
Annual
Best Value Option
$25
Per Drop-In Session
Africa
-First Context
Choose Your Path

Learn at the depth that fits where you are.

Both options run fully online and are processed through Selar. All sessions use the Influence Infrastructure Method, the same framework behind The Influence Strategy engagement.

One-Time

Drop-In Session

$25
Per session · No commitment

Join a single live masterclass to experience Stella's teaching and test the method. Each session is complete and standalone.

  • One live masterclass session
  • Session recording included
  • Framework summary and notes
  • Q&A with Stella
  • No subscription required
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What You'll Learn

The Influence Infrastructure Method in practice.

Each session focuses on a specific skill within one of the three layers. By the end of the programme, you have a working strategy across all three.

Establishing Your Authority

What makes expertise legible, and how AI now determines whose expertise surfaces first.

The Distinctive Point of View

How to develop a position that earns sustained attention. The difference between an opinion and an authority signal.

Building a Trust Network

Strategic relationships versus transactional networking: who carries your expertise forward and how to design that relationship.

Communication That Moves Decisions

Specific frameworks for high-stakes conversations and how to shift a room without appearing to push.

Agenda Positioning

How to enter sector conversations before the decision window opens. What it costs to arrive after.

Visibility Without Self-Promotion

How to become known for the right things, through positioning rather than broadcasting yourself.

By Application Only · Quarterly · Limited Cohort

The Authority Challenge

A four-week live cohort for business leaders, executives, and senior professionals who are ready to build their authority online — with clarity, structure, and the right AI tools to make it sustainable.

This is not a course. Stella works directly with each participant. Over four weeks, the cohort moves from diagnosis to a complete, AI-powered 90-day authority plan — ready to implement on the day the sprint ends. Seats are limited and accepted by application, so every participant is someone we are confident can achieve the outcome.

"AI is your authority amplifier, not your replacement. The leaders who figure that out first will define the next decade of professional influence."

Week 1

Authority Audit and Clarity

Where do you stand? What are you uniquely qualified to say? Define your authority position.

Week 2

Building the Content Architecture

Turn your position into a structured content system. Topics, formats, channels, and cadence.

Week 3

AI Tools and Automation

The specific AI workflows that make your authority system sustainable. Work smarter, publish consistently.

Week 4

The 90-Day Authority Plan

Your complete implementation plan: what to publish, where, when, and how to measure traction.

By Application Only · Limited Cohort

The Authority Challenge

$525

4-week sprint · Live with Stella · Cohort format

Each cohort runs with a small, curated group — seats are limited and not everyone is accepted. We review every application personally to ensure the sprint will deliver the outcome you need.

Applications are reviewed personally. Not every application is accepted.

WHO GETS ACCEPTED

Business leaders, assembly leaders, and senior professionals (8+ years) with a clear goal, a specific sector, and the commitment to build. We decline applications where the fit is unclear — so that every cohort member leaves with a plan that actually works.

Coming Soon

Books and Reading

The Influence School library will include curated reading: books, papers, and frameworks that support the three-layer methodology. Recommendations grounded in the cases and research Stella uses in every session.

Reading List · Coming Shortly